Mansfield District Council is set to sell a hotel it owns in Edinburgh, after the Covid-19 lockdown led to the operator saying the site was ‘unsustainable’.
More frequent business rates valuations in England would be a “positive step” but must happen alongside other reforms to the wider council funding system, the Local Government Association has told...
Local authority procurement body Public Sector Audit Appointments will reassess its proposal to increase the number of audit lots following a mixed response from the sector.
Tensions are rising between central governemnt and a London authority over funding for repairs to Hammersmith Bridge, with transport minister Baroness Vere criticising the business case for...
Councils in England will be required to provide more information on reserve levels to the government, in a bid to improve Whitehall's understanding of financial risks.
Suspected form tampering and safeguarding concerns led a Midlands authority to cancel a contract with a SEND home-to-school transport supplier with two weeks until the start of term.
The London Borough of Croydon has appointed its fourth finance director in less than three years, as the council strives to improve its financial situation.
The government will compensate English and Welsh councils as it proposes moving responsibility for collecting more than £300m of business rates tax to the Treasury.
A London borough’s pension fund has moved £45m into a dedicated investment fund aimed at creating social and environmental benefits within the capital.
Westminster City Council’s management of an over-budget local attraction which has become a national laughing stock has been branded ‘as an exercise in unaccountability’ by the authority's...
CIPFA has launched a new value-for-money toolkit in partnership with the Government Outcomes Lab (GO Lab) based within the University of Oxford’s Blavatnik School of Government.
Integrated care systems could be unable to run quality services amid rising demand if NHS bodies and local authorities are not financially sustainable, the National Audit Office has warned.
Local authorities in England and Wales are losing close to £110m per year from business rates “loopholes” on holiday homes, according to research from property consultancy Colliers.
Three neighbouring authorities in Lincolnshire have approved plans to merge management and workforce teams, a move expected to save tens of millions of pounds over the next decade.
The leader of a local authority forced to spend thousands of pounds hiring facilities to hold Covid-19-safe meetings has called on the government to rethink its decision to effectively ban...
A city council will take on £107m of debt to repay £65m of 'lender option, borrower option' loans, but still expects to save £18m over the life of the debt.
Proposed public procurement reforms risk restricting local organisations' freedom to decide how best to pursue social value in their area, according to a Parliamentary committee.
Poorly maintained records of grants given out for affordable rented homes in Bristol meant data was unreliable, according to a highly critical report from the city council’s internal auditors.
